Field Hospitals - Third Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Third Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Third Corps were located July 2nd in houses and barns along the Taneytown Road from the Schoolhouse Road to the Mill Road. During the night they were ...

William Holland Thomas

Businessman, planter and author

Agent and attorney for the Eastern Cherokees

Member of the North Carolina State Senate and Chairman of its Committee on Internal Improvements

Early railroad builder in western North Carolina

Builder of the first wagon road across the Great Smokies

Colonel of ...

Bearpaw Shale and the Inland Ocean

The black shale rocks seen in this area represent the muddy sediments deposited by the last ocean to exist in Montana. The shale, known by geologists as the Bearpaw Shale contains fossils of sea-going creatures that lived and died some ...

Field Hospitals - Sixth Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Sixth Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Sixth Corps were established July 2nd near the Trostle House east of Rock Creek and two hundred yards southwest of this point. These Hospitals cared for 315 ...

Birds by the Bay

Herons, ducks, and geese gather along the shores and on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

A Great Blue Heron has caught a fish to eat.

Who is this?

Domesticated geese are not native to this area. They are from Europe and Asia. ...

St. Benedict the Moor School

Located on this site was the former St. Benedict the Moor School, a Catholic school for black children that was one of the most important buildings associated with black history in Tampa. The property was purchased for $600 on March ...

East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Depot

Constructed in 1891 as a union depot for the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (nicknamed “Tweetsie”) and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, the building served as a passenger railway terminal until 1940. From 1912 until 1930, ...

First National Sunday School Convention

This site marks the location of the first National Sunday School Convention October 1832 in the Chatham Street Chapel-Theatre.

This 150th anniversary honors the millions of children and youth whose lives have been nurtured by the educational ministry by the ...

The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad

The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad was chartered by the Alabama legislature in the session of 1836-1837. Work was begun at Selma in 1851 and the rails reached Blue Mountain in 1861. Work was terminated during the War Between the States.

In ...

In Memory of Citizens Killed / In Memory of Thirteenth Cavalry

Pancho Villa Raid of 1916

[Side A:]

In Memory

Citizens Killed – March 9, 1916

W. A. Davidson • Harry Davis • James T. Dean • Dr. H. M. Hart • Bessie James • C.C. Miller • C.D. Miller • J. J. Moore • ...